city in egypt. it looks like there is a lull right now in the violence but the two sides have not yet resolved this conflict, not anything close. martha: is there any hopes for a framework, or something that might change this. allow it to be resolved peacefully, david lee? >> reporter: we are told that the president, the egyptian president is going to make an address on television in the next few hours. we are also told that during the day he has met with army chiefs and his ministers to try and come up with some way to stabilize the country. we've got a live picture outside the presidential palace right now, and the situation there at this hour does remain tense. egypt's vice president said he has -- these are his words, personal ideas to resolve the dispute, to come up with amendments that would be applied to the proposed constitution that would be agreeable to the opposition, but right now the position of the opposition, martha, is this. there will not be any dialogue, dialogue will not take plac